linux-kernel - Re: Specific support for Intel Atom architecture

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:	Mon, 11 May 2009 23:30:19 +0200
From:	Tobias Doerffel <tobias.doerffel@...il.com>
To:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
Cc:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>,
	Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@...el.com>,
	"Pallipadi, Venkatesh" <venkatesh.pallipadi@...el.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, Willy Tarreau <w@....eu>
Subject: Re: Specific support for Intel Atom architecture

Hi,

thanks for your comments. Fixed some of your remarks and attached a new patch.

Am Montag, 4. Mai 2009 09:22:46 schrieb Andi Kleen:
> This is wrong, There are Atom CPUs which support 64bit code too.
Fixed.

> >  config X86_XADD
> >  	def_bool y
> > @@ -355,11 +364,11 @@ config X86_ALIGNMENT_16
> >
> >  config X86_INTEL_USERCOPY
> >  	def_bool y
> > -	depends on MPENTIUM4 || MPENTIUMM || MPENTIUMIII || MPENTIUMII ||
> > M586MMX || X86_GENERIC || MK8 || MK7 || MEFFICEON || MCORE2 +	depends on
> > MPENTIUM4 || MPENTIUMM || MPENTIUMIII || MPENTIUMII || M586MMX ||
> > X86_GENERIC || MK8 || MK7 || MEFFICEON || MCORE2 || MATOM
>
> I don't think that's necessarily a good idea. You would need benchmarks
> showing that intel user copy performs better on Atom than the original one.
> Do you have some?
You're right here. I made some quick benchmarks of 
__copy_user[_intel[_nocache]]() and __copy_zeroing[_intel[_nocache]]() in 
userspace and the generic ones indeed were about 15% faster.

> >  config X86_USE_PPRO_CHECKSUM
> >  	def_bool y
> > -	depends on MWINCHIP3D || MWINCHIPC6 || MCYRIXIII || MK7 || MK6 ||
> > MPENTIUM4 || MPENTIUMM || MPENTIUMIII || MPENTIUMII || M686 || MK8 ||
> > MVIAC3_2 || MEFFICEON || MGEODE_LX || MCORE2 +	depends on MWINCHIP3D ||
> > MWINCHIPC6 || MCYRIXIII || MK7 || MK6 || MPENTIUM4 || MPENTIUMM ||
> > MPENTIUMIII || MPENTIUMII || M686 || MK8 || MVIAC3_2 || MEFFICEON ||
> > MGEODE_LX || MCORE2 || MATOM
>
> Similar here. Atom is quite different from PPro/K8.
Made some benchmarks of csum_partial() and csum_partial_copy_generic() as 
well. Here the PPro version of csum_partial() performed 10-15% better 
(depending on buffer len) while both implementations of 
csum_partial_copy_generic() performed equal.


> > diff --git a/arch/x86/Makefile_32.cpu b/arch/x86/Makefile_32.cpu
> > index 80177ec..07a11b0 100644
> > --- a/arch/x86/Makefile_32.cpu
> > +++ b/arch/x86/Makefile_32.cpu
> > @@ -33,6 +33,7 @@ cflags-$(CONFIG_MCYRIXIII)	+= $(call
> > cc-option,-march=c3,-march=i486) $(align)-f cflags-$(CONFIG_MVIAC3_2)	+=
> > $(call cc-option,-march=c3-2,-march=i686) cflags-$(CONFIG_MVIAC7)		+=
> > -march=i686
> >  cflags-$(CONFIG_MCORE2)		+= -march=i686 $(call tune,core2)
> > +cflags-$(CONFIG_MATOM)		+= -march=atom $(call tune,atom)
> >
> >  # AMD Elan support
> >  cflags-$(CONFIG_X86_ELAN)	+= -march=i486
>
> That needs to be in the 64bit version too.
Fixed as well. Also included changes to call cc-option as recommended by hpa.

> > diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/module.h
> > b/arch/x86/include/asm/module.h index 47d6274..e959c4a 100644
> > --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/module.h
> > +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/module.h
> > @@ -28,6 +28,8 @@ struct mod_arch_specific {};
> >  #define MODULE_PROC_FAMILY "586MMX "
> >  #elif defined CONFIG_MCORE2
> >  #define MODULE_PROC_FAMILY "CORE2 "
> > +#elif defined CONFIG_MATOM
> > +#define MODULE_PROC_FAMILY "ATOM "
>
> This should be obsolete anyways, you can just uses CORE2. They have
> compatible ISAs.
So you would recommend writing

#elif defined CONFIG_MCORE2 || defined CONFIG_ATOM
#define MODULE_PROC_FAMILY "CORE2 "

?

Regards,

Tobias

View attachment "0001-x86-add-specific-support-for-Intel-Atom-architectur.patch" of type "text/x-patch" (4957 bytes)

Download attachment "signature.asc " of type "application/pgp-signature" (198 bytes)